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Conflict, Memory, and Knowledge
Free 14-Week Online Seminar Hosted Online – Register Here Every Tuesday, April 16 – July 16, 20242:00 – 3:30 PM CET Co-Sponsored by Off University and Freie Universität Berlin’s Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East Master’s Program. Course… Continue reading→
Exiled Voices for Sustaining Hope: Journey of a Journalist from Afghanistan’s Turmoil to Exile and Renewed Resilience
Originally published by JSK Fellows Medium on December 4, 2023 By Faisal Karimi Journalism in exile: I had never thought about it even in my wildest dreams. Now from my new home in the United States, I run the Afghanistan Institute… Continue reading→
Register Now for the Consortium’s Spring 2024 Co-Led Online Seminars
Registration is now open for the Consortium’s selection of free, online seminars. This semester’s courses include a wide variety of subjects, from Afghan history and contemporary Arabic literature, to historical memory in Eastern Europe and global health in conflict settings…. Continue reading→
Critical Issues in Global Health in Conflict Settings
Free 10-Week Online Seminar Hosted on Zoom – Register for Link Every Thursday, March 7 – May 9, 2024 10:00 – 11:30 AM ET Course Description This 10-week seminar examines contemporary issues and challenges in global health, with a particular… Continue reading→
Imprisonment in Contemporary Arab Fiction: A Feminist Reading
Free 10-Week Online Seminar Hosted on Zoom – Register for Link Every Wednesday, March 6 – May 8, 2024 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET Course Description: This 10-week seminar will examine depictions and recordings of imprisonment in contemporary Arabic… Continue reading→
Afghanistan After Two Years of Taliban Rule
Free 10-Week Online Seminar Hosted on Zoom – Register for Link Every Tuesday, March 5 – May 7, 2024 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET Course Description This 10-week online seminar will examine the past two years of Taliban rule… Continue reading→
Historical Memory During the Russo-Ukrainian War: Etatism, Securitisation, and Decolonisation
Free 10-Week Online Seminar Hosted on Zoom – Register for Link Every Wednesday, March 6 – May 8, 2024 9:00 – 10:30 AM ET Course Description: This 10-week seminar will focus on historical memory as one of the main battlefields of the… Continue reading→
Silencing Teachers in Yemen
How the Houthi threaten the future of a civil society Originally Published by Public Seminar on January 9, 2024 By Abdulgaleel Ahmed “After nine years of war, Yemen remains the world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” a United Nations report asserted earlier… Continue reading→
EVENT: Aquí y allá: Art and Activism Against Borders
Dec. 7 | 5:00 – 9:00 PM ET Hoerle Lecture Hall 63 5th Ave. New York, NY 10011 Presented by Otros Dreams en Actión and faculty at The New School. Sponsored by Global Studies, Politics, Zolberg Institute on Migration and… Continue reading→
New report – “Artistic Exodus: Afghan Artists Fleeing Taliban Rule”
December 1, 2023 Created in partnership between the Artistic Freedom Initiative and UC Berkeley School of Law, “Artistic Exodus” highlights the ongoing risks that Afghan artists and cultural workers face in Afghanistan and exposes the serious systemic problems facing refugee artists during migration and… Continue reading→